James Pearl Thinks Blogging is Dead

JimN

Captain Wildcat
Team MTBNJ Halter's
If someone can teach me to snowboard, I'm in

Start by going downhill. When you start going too fast, turn the board so you are on your heels or toes and then catch an edge and fall down. Do this one hundred times, and you'll stop falling down most times. I would highly recommend knee and butt pads your first time.
 

2Julianas

Well-Known Member
Team MTBNJ Halter's
1 step closer of my dream of bringing you guys to Utah for a ski trip.....you have to graduate past the "guy wearing football team jacket/jeans" stage first tho. 7 days this year will help tremendously.
Yes please. They did good at the Wheelmill outfit wise. They are highly coachable.
 

Santapez

Well-Known Member
Team MTBNJ Halter's
They have Tuesday night pick up crit races there during the season, that's how I broke my shoulder back in the day. Sounds like they have a front row seat to the fun.

I hope I'm correct it was your scapula. Because I'll point out their back window every now and then and talk about how my teammate broke his scapula back there. Sounds way better than "shoulder".
 

pooriggy

Well-Known Member
Team MTBNJ Halter's
I hope I'm correct it was your scapula. Because I'll point out their back window every now and then and talk about how my teammate broke his scapula back there. Sounds way better than "shoulder".
Yes, it was my scapula. Your in laws missed the show.
 

Norm

Mayor McCheese
Team MTBNJ Halter's
Today it is all about the tagging.

@jmanic - That does remind me of some of my business trips where I would let the company buy me a pound of coffee as part of my dinner. Going to Seattle in 3 weeks and this may need to happen again. Technically you're supposed to give them the itemized receipt but they really don't care on the financial level I play at.

@jmanic - why is it a good thing to have some awe, but a bad thing to be full of awe?

@jmanic - my point system is a base-100^positive_reinforcement/-\system where you attain 100 points for eating everything the right way. It does not penalize you for eating other things. My philosophy is that if I eat a really healthy/robust diet in any given day, I will be less likely to eat shit through the day. So far I have found this to be the case. I am going to be 50 in a few years, I don't need the system to tell me I can't eat a little piece of chocolate during the day. That idea can eat a dick. Incidentally, what is the Weight Watchers point value for eating a dick?

@jmanic - if you have half a cake at home and eat the whole thing, should you then go buy another cake and eat half of it to make it like nothing happened?

@jmanic - you are right, I was thinking of the New Pornographers but when I googled it, some results came up so I assumed it was what I was thinking of. As it turns out, I guess obviously, I am familiar with none of either band's music.

@fidodie - today I was informed by my boss that as of 1/1 the product is mine. I will be the official Product Owner of the tool. I told my boss I am taking the tool in a totally different direction and will be marketing it for the Amish user base.

@MadisonDan - today was not as super-happy of a family day but it's more about one of my parental units than anything. Without getting too into it, this is why retirement is bad for some people. They sit around on the couch all day and get upset about shit that isn't real. If I ever get like that please someone put me out of my misery. On the flip side, the tres is now up AND decorated.

@2Julianas - I'll just put this out there. Dinner on Saturday the 8th then maybe you guys crash here and we can go skiing on Sunday the 9th. IDK where yet and maybe it's a stretch. But they are calling for snow on the 8th (which I guess could spike our dinner plans) so skiing may be a better bet than riding. If that doesn't work, our next foray will be in Canada over Xmas. I know, you'll be in Okinawa or whatever that place that starts with an O is.

@graveyardman67 - on that note, D wanted to invite you guys up to Tremblant over Xmas. I know there is like 0.0000002 chance you can go but before I forget, there you go.

@UtahJoe - I hope you are keeping track of these dates.

@Mitch - 100% have to step on that. Totally unacceptable.

@Magic - I agree the shoes make Mitch look hip but I think there is a point in time where the shoes go from making you look old-and-hip to totally-out-of-it. No worries, Mitch, we'll let you know when you jump the shark.

@MissJR - after reading you piss & moan about snow in Morristown for 10 years I don't think I want to be inside a 200 mile radius of the day you try to learn to snowboard.

@pooriggy - please don't break your spatula anymore.

@seanrunnette - I was on Zwift today which you know. I woke up this morning at 5am because my goddamn arm hurt so much from the shot yesterday and shortly after waking up my mind went into overdrive about all the work I needed to do. So I was in a half daze by the time I got on the bike at 4:00 and sort of just rode and played it by ear. I was going to do that 2.5 minute hill repeat just out of Downtown Watopia but I did 1 (where I broke my PR) then decided to try for the Hilly Loop. I hit the climb a second time (where I broke the PR again) then broke the full loop PR. This is a weird place for me right now because I did not feel very good at all today but I am able to knock off these PRs still. I guess this speaks to my fitness but I need to make sure I sleep enough.

@ChrisG - I finished 2 books this week, Britt-Marie Was Here and You Are Not So Smart. Totally different but both worth the read. I liked A Man Called Ove better than Britt-Marie but they are both good. If you have not read Ove, I would add that to your list. Not So Smart is non-fiction and I think anyone who cares about their own thinking patterns and how they see the world should read it. Absolutely fascinating. Great bathroom reader as it is essentially 48 standalone chapters about why your internal dialogue about how the world works and how you think is totally wrong. Bathroom reader for you, not Iggy. Iggy still be all about the Mad Libs.

@Dominique - hi, just tagging you because I should tag you too. As you well know, your parents are coming tomorrow so we'll have a busy weekend. Today I hit 100 points on my JManic-Approved-Jenny-Craig-Wuz-Here system and while I may come close tomorrow (since we control dinner the day they arrive) it will go to total shit on Saturday & Sunday. As Dan says, chocolate everything/anything. It's ok, I have had a good week.

@Commissioner Rankings of Make Believe - for real, you love this name. I'm going to float this until Monday.

@shrpshtr325 - just tagging people who comment. Here's a funny thing. I just realized you are Bill H which is a name I have seen kick around forever, even going back to the All-A-Muchy 50k days when you pulled a GPS link from my account on Garmin Connect or something - I think it wa a ride I did with Brett (@hardtale70 maybe?). I am trying to remember the details but I think you mistakenly re-uploaded it, and it said we rode together. Again, details are foggy but I was wondering who the hell Bill H was back then. Anyway, the name pops up sporadically over the years and literally just the other day when you did this race with Steph or whatever, it clicks and I am like...holy shit this is the same guy? The details of that last paragraph are probably 9% accurate.

That's enough. I have absolutely no point today.

@Carson - I didn't forget about you but you don't say much anymore.
 

Patrick

Overthinking the draft from the basement already
Staff member
cool - i think i might want to get back into tech :)
looking at all this forum code, and config stuff, is a blast. I should break it soon.

oh, congrats - it has been fun to watch the progression from peon consultant, to product owner.
 

Mitch

Well-Known Member
Team MTBNJ Halter's
Wow. Long one. Lots if content. You have s good memory too. You must take notes on who and what to respond to because there is a lot going on there in that post..
 

pooriggy

Well-Known Member
Team MTBNJ Halter's
Every year for Christmas I buy spatulas and phone charging cords for the wife's stocking, every year they either break or go missing. Good thing Christmas is around the corner, we're due.
 

mattybfat

The Opinion Police
Team MTBNJ Halter's
:( I guess it's part of being the white shadow, for the record I am not a racist shadow. Just an old white shadow :)
 

shrpshtr325

Infinite Source of Sarcasm
Team MTBNJ Halter's
not sure about downloading anything off garmin connect or reuploading it, (i only got a garmin last year so . . . idk why id have an account thats that old).

that mountain man race was like a month ago . . . idk maybe im pointing this out pointlessly? (not that i care)


@Norm, for some reason i enjoy reading your (sometimes rambling) posts, and listening the podcast. (which reminds me i still need to show @seanrunnette how to use a tapemeasure)
 

vlkslvr

Active Member
@ChrisG - I finished 2 books ...and You Are Not So Smart. ... Not So Smart is non-fiction and I think anyone who cares about their own thinking patterns and how they see the world should read it. Absolutely fascinating. Great bathroom reader as it is essentially 48 standalone chapters about why your internal dialogue about how the world works and how you think is totally wrong. Bathroom reader for you, not Iggy. Iggy still be all about the Mad Libs.

Second this as being a good bathroom read - that's where I keep my copy and you can totally read the chapters as standalone entries.
 

Norm

Mayor McCheese
Team MTBNJ Halter's
@Mitch sometimes I do take notes but not yesterday. I have a weird memory in that I generally need something to trigger it. When I start reading the comments again at the end of the day, it triggers what I may have been thinking earlier and I go with it. Some days I take notes but yesterday was not one of them. All that shit just came kind of crashing out, not entirely unlike those stank-ass feet from under your chair on the airplane.

@mattybfat I have to admit I wasn't sure you were even reading the thread anymore. I'm sure most of the people here don't know what The White Shadow even means. I don't remember why I gave you that name, it's been so long. In any event, to bring in something you posted elsewhere, yeah this year the weather has been a real shit hole. I am glad Chrome does not tell me that "shit" is not a real word. I also realized today that my talk-to-text doesn't try to derail it into some other bullshit word.

Speaking of basketball, which of course we all know The White Shadow was about, Zac plays his first travel game tomorrow in Clark. This is a reminder for @pooriggy that he can come with coffee and watch him play. I forget what he said he was doing on the weekend planner. I don't think basketball in Clark was on the agenda. Actually, you're probably still a little sick so stay away. I don't want to be sick.

I got the flu shot this week and I have been a little laggy since then. Or, it has nothing to do with that and those double race days take more out of me that I want to admit. Either way today's ride was pretty lackluster. I hadn't eaten much before the ride so it's not unexpected. I continue to watch Man in the High Castle, season 2. I mean you can't make this up so I'll just say where we are. They were dropping acid in today's episode.

Today was beyond incredibly jam-packed with shit to do then it stopped at 6:30 when dinner was done. And now it has been calm and quiet. I took the opportunity to read last weekend's Sunday Times which is a nice little treat. I only scratched the surface of the Magazine which looks decent. It's been somewhat meh lately. The whole paper has been lackluster honestly. Book Review, Metro, and Travel have all sucked. These are 3 of my 4 favorite sections. Arts is Arts. Pretty much always stays the same.

I have no point in sitting down to write this other than to put words on a page.

@shrpshtr325 - like I said, considerable amount of inaccuracy in that paragraph. I made the realization, yeah about that, a month-ish ago. Then I forgot, then remembered, then forgot, and so on. It was only as I was going through comments did I remember what I wanted to make note of. I mean this is the same you, right? Just added you as a FB friend in the last 24 hours? I just remember your name in the context of the All-A-Muchy ride I did with Brett at some point. I guess this would have been around 2006. Maybe you pulled my GPS track at the time and tried to upload it somewhere to see where it went? Were you even around back then? Did you do that race? Do you like pecan pie?

@fidodie - thanks, I'm pretty re-energized by the shift at work. I told my boss that if PS tries to back-handedly force me to stay that I'll be taking the call from my old contractor seriously once 1/1 rolls around. That may have helped firm up the org's decision to move me to a place that a) I am supposed to be and b) I want to be. I didn't expect to be given the product ownership so that's a nice surprise. What's more, my boss is still my boss he's just moving to product strategy. This is all an excellent thing and it could make 2019 a really good year. But we'll see.

And that's a wrap on November. Will get to that post in the next few days. Have a good weekend.
 

shrpshtr325

Infinite Source of Sarcasm
Team MTBNJ Halter's
I was around but not on this forum. I turned 16 in 2006. idr if i even had a mountain bike at that point. I probably had some cheap (by current standards anyway) every level bike bc i remember riding a lot to get around before I got my license.


Yes that i got a friend request from you when i logged in this afternoon. Be posted to be underwhelmed my fb account is pretty much just a way for me to keep up with bikes cars and the local auto racing crowd....
 
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